Lakai
Lakai was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,962 among boys’ names; 602 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakai?
#2,962 among boys’ names, 2025
Lakai rose from #3,476 in 2015 to #2,962 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.7 to 24.6 per million.
42 babies in 2025, the peak
Lakai peaked in 2025, when 42 boys were given it, #2,962 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 36 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,962 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,309 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,675 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,372 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,215 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,354 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,608 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,663 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,045 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,415 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,476 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,789 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,814 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,759 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,837 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,954 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,774 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,206 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,914 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,766 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,033 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,914 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,224 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 602 Americans recorded as Lakai, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 42 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lakai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakai, and how old are they?
An estimated 597 Americans named Lakai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 375 people named Lakai (76 women and girls, 299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,526 babies since 1880, Lakai is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 156 babies (27%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lakai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lakai and names like it
- Compare Lakai and LakeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLakai peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakai since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lakai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lakai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.